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No. 719,681) J PATENTED FEB. 3, 19.03. J. W. MACDONALD.

TOY. APPLICATION FILED MAY a1, 1902. no MODEL.

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JAMES \V. MACDONALD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 719,681, dated February 3, 1903.

Application filed May 31, 1902. Serial No. 109,780. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JAMES W. MAoDoNALD,a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to a toy resembling a camera.

The toy consists in a case having an opening in the front, a coin-slot at one end, and having in the preferred form a hole in the back. A slide in the case has a picture or de vice to attract attention and a piece of looking-glass. The slide is two-thirds the length of the interior of the case, so that when in the raised position the picture or device is opposite the opening in the front and when lowered the looking-glass is opposite the hole in the front.

The object of the invention is to produce a toy by which the operator can show the sitters picture reflected in the looking-glass.

Figure 1 is a perspective front view of the toy with the picture opposite the aperture. Fig. 2 is a perspective front view of the toy with the mirror opposite the aperture. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the toy. Fig. t is a transverse sectional view of the toy.

In the drawings, 0. indicates a case made of pasteboard or other suitable material, preferably of rectangular form; I), an aperture in the front of the case, preferably central between the opposite ends and the opposite sides, and c a coin-slot in the upper end of the case a. Within the case a is the slide d, two-thirds the length of the interior of the case a, of nearly the Width, and of a thickness to freely slide in the case a. The slide (1 is preferably made of a thickness of cardboard d', having on its upper end the V- shaped recess 61 for the reception of the coin. A cardboard d having on its lower part the picture d or any other device, has the mirror 61 inserted into the cardboard (1 If the material of the back of the case is sufficiently flexible to hold the slide'd in the raised position, no hole is required in the back; but when the material of the case is too rigid I prefer to make the hole a in the back.

When the toy is used, the user asks any person to place a coin into the slot 0 and look pleasantly at the picture or device (1 which, as the slide is raised, will be opposite the hole I) and visible. The user presses with his finger against the back of the case or through the hole 0, against the slide (1 to hold the slide in the raised position until the coin is inserted, when the slide is released and drops, replacing the picture d by the looking-glass 01 in which the customer sees himself reflected.

I do not wish to confine myself to the particular construction or proportions of the case shown, as these may be altered without materially afiecting my invention, which consists in a slide having a looking-glass for part of its surface movably supported in a perforated case, as herein more fully set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A toy consisting of acase having an opening and a slide loose in the case and having part of its surface formed by a mirror,whereby the looking-glass or the other part of the slide may be exposed to view at pleasure, as described.

2. A toy consisting of a slide part of the surface of which is covered by a looking-glass inclosed in a case having an opening in the front and a coin-slot in one end, and a case as described.

.3. In a toy, the combination with the slide (1, the coin-recess d in the slide, the lookingglass (1 and a picture 01 on the slide, of the case a, the aperture 19 in the case, and the coin-slot c, as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name tot-his specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES W. MACDONALD.

Witnesses:

ADA E. HAGERTY, J. A. MILLER, Jr. 

